1. StefanCollini, DonaldWinch, JohnBurrow,That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History, Cambridge, C.U.P., 1983, p. 4.
2. Some of this literature is summarized, with reference primarily to philosophy, in RichardRorty, QuentinSkinner, JeromeSchneewind, eds,Philosophy and its History, Cambridge, C.U.P., 1985
3. See IstvanHont, MichaelIgnatieff, eds,Wealth and Virtue: the Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment, Cambridge, C.U.P., 1984, and the references cited there, especially to the work of Winch, Pocock, and Haakonssen.
4. S. Collini,Liberalism and Sociology: L.T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England 1880–1914, Cambridge, C.U.P., 1979.
5. For a, somewhat idiosyncratic, overview of these developments, see the first chapter inJ. G. A. Pocock’s collection of essays:Virtue, Commerce, and Manners, Cambridge, CUP., 1985.